6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB WIM3 Pounded rijf Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. B. J. 8T ACKPOLE, Prtx't and Editor-in-CU?/ F. R. OYSTER, Manager. OUB M. SHEINMETZ, Managing Editor* « Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania AssociftV Eestern office, Has- Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West ern office. Hae- Brooks, People'# Gcs Building, CttiU Entered at the Post Office In Harris* burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. $3.00 obs» a year In advance. . ■ _ MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7 The great mind knows the poioer of gentleness, Only tries force because persuasion fails. I —Bbownixo. PARK IMPROVEMENTS I the big licks of the Department of Parks must be put In. There Is more than usual to do and probably considerably less than the necessary amount of money to do It with; but In view of all tho circumstances, a great deal may yet be accomplished before the end of the summer season. Commissioner Gross and his assistant, Mr. Forrer, realize that no other sec tion of the park area will Justify more attention than the river slope from Iron alley to Maclay street. Much grading and planting is yet to be done and after that the heavy planting that will protect the embankment. Public approval of the River Front treatment is general. Men, women j and children are glad that it has been saved to the community as its chief ; place of rest. WHY KEEP OX TALKING? READERS of the Telegraph must have observed during the last few weeks the increasing tourist travel in this section of Pennsylvania from, all parts of the United States. It is not uncommon to see automobiles ■with license tags from as far west as Washington, north to the Canadian i border and from all sections of the. South. These parties are beginning to appreciate the unsurpassed scenery of : Pennsylvania and almost any evening ! tfroups of visitors may bo noted in our | i parks and touring about the city. But there Is still one great NEED! ! Wo have not the hotel facilities which j this increasing travel demands. Un less and until tho people of Harris- | burg awake to tho importance of tho j big hotel which stands forth as tho ! most necessary and vital requirement | of our future development we can j hardly expect the permanent benefit j ■which comes from thousands of tour- i lsts making Harrisburg their main i sumnjer objective. Long since the hotel matter ceased ' to be a matter for serious argument. ' The need is so obvious that there ought to be no further postponement or dis- | cussion. INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY THAT the war brought big prices and an active market for farm products was shown by Senator Curtis, of Kansas, in a speech in tho Senate a few days ago. The figures demonstrating those facts have already been widely published. That prosperity has also been brought to the farmers by the indirect influence of the war in restoring activity to the manufacturing Industries was another fact brought out by Senator Curtis. Here are some of the facts regarding the effect of trie European war upon American fac tories: In the year of peace before the war we sold to Europe woolen goods to the value of $4,753,000. In the year of war we sold to Europe woolen goods to the value of $3.2,057,000, a gain of 574 per cent. Is any further demonstration needed as to the cause of the present condition of the woolen mills? The leather industry, they inform us, is no longer depressed as it was before the war. Let statistics give the answer. In the year of peace we sold to Europe men's shoes to the value of $9,603,000. In the year of war we •old to Europe men's shoes to the value of $22,669,000, a gain of 267 per cent. In the year of peace we sold to Europe goods manuactured from leather to the value of $43,390,000. In tho year of war we sold to Europe goods manufactured from leather to the value of $90,804,000, a gain of *lO9 per cent. In the year of peace we sold to Europe harness and saddlery to the value of $793,000. In the year of war w© sold to Europe harness and saddlery to the value of $18,434,000, r& gain of 2,223 per cent, Is there anything mysterious about the Increased activity in the leather industry ? In tho steel Industry there has been great activity also. Steel is the one thing that enters more directly Into the manufacture of munitions of war than perhaps any other. Look at the figures in regard to this industry, Jti tho year of peace we sold to l JBuropa steej bars and billets to the MONDAY EVENING, war we Bold to Europe of the same products to the value of 121,743,000, a gain of 183 per cent In the year of peace we sold to Europe barbed and other wire to the value of $7,473,000. In the year of war we sold to Europe barbed and other wire to the value of $18,882,000, a gain of 15 3 per cent. In the year of peace we sold to Europe firearms to the value of $3,- 171,000. In the year of war we sold to Europe firearms to the value of $11,591,000, a gain of 363 per cent* In the year of peace we sold to Europe explosives to the value of $6,- 244,000, In the year of war we sold to Europe explosives to the value of $71,806,000, a gain of 1,050 per cent- In the year of peace we sold to Europe medical appliances to the value of $1,571,000. In the year of war we sold to Europe medical appli ances to the value of $5,218,000, a gain of 231 per cent. In the year of peace we sold to Europe machine tools to the value of $12,536,000. In the year of war we sold to Europe machine tools to the value of $34,000,000. During the year of war wo sold to Europe automobiles and automobile tires to the value of $92,000,000, a gain of 170 per cent. Here are a few thoughts for those who tell us our prosperity of the present is not due to the war. It is the opinion of stoel expert* that there is an accumulating world demand for steel apart from war uses which this country must satisfy If the war goes on another year or more. And the fact that enormous war orders have been placed during the last week would indicate that there Is no possibility of concluding hostilities for another twelve-month, at least. Added to tho requirements of the munition makers will be the demand for steel for sen ereal uses and the big plant at Steelton and all other plants are certain to be busy places for months to come. • THEN AND NOW PRICES of household commodities vary with the times. Some times they are up; some times down. Occasionally some are up while others are down, but the trend of wages in recent years at least has been almost constantly up, scales standing un touched even when work has been slack. There is food for thought and inter esting comparisons to be made in the items dug recently out of an old ledger by Chester Knlpe, of North Wales, Pa., the figures being one hundred years old. Some of the prices follow: In 1813 sugar was 20 cents a pound, and in 181S the price advanced to 27 cents pound; coffee was 25 cents a pound and molasses $1.25 a gallon; calico, 25 cents a yard; cotton flannel, 22 cents, and one handkerchief 55 cents; shoes for adults, $1.20 a pair, and for chil dren, 50 cents; trousers sold at 33 cents, and suspenders were 43 cents; stockings sold at 61 cents; writing paper, 4 cents a sheet; candles, 22 .cents a pound; tobacco, 12% cents a I pound. In 1815 oats sold at 50 cents • \ a bushel; straw, 4 cents a bundle; | powder, 7 5 cents a pound. Eggs! , brought from 8 to 12 cents a dozen; | butter from 10 to 12 cants a pound; 'pork, 4 cents a pound; veal 5 cents a pound; beef, 6 cents a pound; flour, 4 cents a pound. Farmers paid their hands 50 cents a day, excepting in harvesting season, when 60 cents was paid. One of the entries shows that he made a new frock for Polly Rlnawalt that cost 31 cents. The records also show that he was a milliner, for he charged 40 cents 1 for "altering a bonnet." In 1816 Kulp , paid David Meschter $7.50 for making j a coffin for his father. ' Thus it will be noted that while 1 I some items of household expenses 1 were higher then than sow, others were vastly lower. But if the average | was slightly lower then, wages were greatly so. The laborer of those days ! could not have lived as well as does the workingman of to-day. Likewise, :it is to be noted—milliner bills ran jas low as forty cents and thirty-one cents was enough to pay for the mak ing of a dress. To-day it costs more than forty cents to look at a bdnnet ! and thirty-one cents wouldn't buy the trimmings for a one-piece bathing suit. Nothing serves to throw such a shadow over prosperity of any country ias impending labor disturbances, and J there ought to be found some method I for settlement of these controversies I without involving capital and labor in ( endless disputes. TITO STAR SPANGLED BANNER THERE was a time, previous to tho outburst of patriotism fol lowing the beginning of the European war, when in some parts i of the country it required a wave of j the leader's baton to bring lethargic j audiences to their feet when the band struck up "The Star Spangled Ban | ner," and heaven knows that was bad ' enough. But what must one think of a Secretary of War, who is the rep i rescntatlve of the President of the \ United States in things military, when he stands with hands in pockets as the band at the Plattsburg Training Camp plays the air that thrills every red-blooded American with pride? The incident mentioned attracted more than passing attention at the camp site of the Plattsburg regiments "on hike" near Cllntonvllle, N. Y., last Wednesday. In fact, It was the chief topic of conversation at mess follow ing retreat during the same afternoon. Perhaps the military training of one month has rendered the citizen soldiers hypercritical, but Wilson stock was well below par for more than a breath, ing spell after the Incident, THE HERRICK INCIDENT A KENT Mr, Hughes' criticism of President Wilson for the re moval of Myron T. Herrlck, am bassador to France, in the midst of the European war after he had made a wonderful record for efficiency, the Democratic Philadelphia Record says: "Mr. Hughes has done what he could to make Mr, Herrlck a campaign is sue," Mr, Hughes has done nothing of the sort. Jtx. HsrricJc wm » campaign Issue long before Mr. Hughes was even considered as a presidential possibility. He became an Issue the moment he was removed from office. All Europe was amazed at this stupidity on the part of 'Washington—or worse than stupidity, for Herrlck was removed to give place to a Wilson favorite. Her rlck had just completed the most bril liant and heroic service that any American diplomat had eve? per formed up to that time, He had the confidence of both France and Ger man}*. He was ono of the great and Influential figures in European diplo macy, respected by everybody and ex erting a tremendous Influence for good. But he had to make way for the President's political preferments. Herrlck was an Issue from tho hour i of hlo removal In tho minds of Re i publicans and Democrats alike who ! believe our diplomatic service should be above tho trifling ambitions of po litical favorites. President Wilson, not Mr. Hughes, made a campaign Is sue of Mr. Herrlck. 1 TELEORAPH PERISCOPE 1 ■—Slzo doesn't always count—think how many more stomach-aches one cucumber contains than do a dozen watermelons. ■ —After a while they'll be giving an automobile with each set of tires. —Most of these announcement* of gasoline. substitutes should be spelled substl-toots. —Von Hlndenburg should remem ber that even Napoleon had his Waterloo. —Well, well, at last New York has managed to get Into Harrlsburg's class; they have a street car strike over there. —Tho man who takes things as they come seldom sees many of them com ing. editorial comment" With two ex-Presidents actively sup porting him, Mr. Hughes, in the event of his election, may find the question "What shall we do with our ex-Presi dents?" extremely troublesome.—New Orleans Times-Picayune. Let us hope that the German dyes brought over in the Deutschland will increase the hemoglobin content in the pale face of George Washington as it appears on the two-cent postage stamp. —Chicago Daily News. The four leading batsmen of baseball come from Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina and Texas. The era of recon struction is evidently over. The carpet baggers have given way to the three baggers for good.-—New York Tribune. Sing Sing's happv prisoners have given Tom Osborne the freedom of the place.—Washington Post. Confiscating the Hearst ranch at least shows that Carranza has a sense of humor.—New York Telegraph. Wanted—a Man [From tho Kansas City Star.] "We want a man," says a big cor poration. advertising in this newspaper. Well, let's see; what sort of a man does it want? A drinking man? No. The advertise ment says he must be "clear headed." A lazy man, a shrinker, a clock watcher? No. It says he must be an "onergetic hustler." No fellow who i& looking for an easy job, for a soft snap, need apply. A man who has become flat-chested, stoop-shouldered and sickly from dissi pation? No. The very first require ment mentioned in tho advertisement is that he must "possess vigor." A man who is content to drift with the tide? No. It says he must have "enthusiasm and AMBITION," and the word ambition is in capital letters. AI3O he must have "earnest purpose and common sense." A grouch, a cross tempered, uncivil man? No. The advertisement states that he must have a "good personality" which means that he must be a likable man, a man whom other manly men will respect. A college man? Not necessarily. "A fair education" is all that is required. A man of loose character? No chance. He must have a "clear record." A diffident, bashful, timid man? No. sir. This job is not for him. No good job is. or ever was for the shrinking, self-effacing, you-go-flrst sort of a man. That kind never arrives. This job is for a man "with full confidence in his own ability," and that accomplishment is left for the last punch in the adver tisement. What's the pay? There's no limit. Go as far as you like. The man who can fill this bill is the kind that goes to the top, and they're scarce as hen's teeth. Big business is hunting for this kind; and rewards them. A firm in New York advertised recently for a man to fill a hundred-thousand-dollar a year job, and did not find him. There are plenty of the other kind, though. Plenty of the ten-dollar-a week kind; so many thousands of them that they gang around the bottom rungs of the ladder. My Partner My business oartner, my special part ner," my best banker is candy just candy. It frequently makes me a new and valued friend. Candy put energy and courage In me. You will always find a few boxes of candy In my office desk. Do you realize that we use in this; country each year 7,650,000,000 pounds of sugar? Sugar, so the doctors say, Is the sec ret of our strenuous lives. For one to go over to the sugar barrel and dip up a handful of sugar would be Incon venient and not altogether so palatable as candy. But It would be necessarv In the absence of candy to eat sugar some way. Candy has the advantage of common sugar. It has so many styles and such a variety of flavor that one scarcelv knows where to begin or where to end while eating It. Aside from the appetite one has for candy, there Is the aesthetic appeal. What Is more bewltchlngly beautiful, more delightful to the eye? The vio lent pleasure candy gives to the palate, the particular twang you find In cer tain creations, the whole plan of a pretty box of candy, Is la answer to a universal demand. A prominent physician *told me once that the heart and the-muscles require candy. I find when exercising regular ly and strenuously that my muscles re oulre more sugar. The way r know this Is so simple. My stomach tele graphs the fact to my brain, it beats all of the Indorsements or recommen dations of science, for my stomach Is Intimately acquainted with myself. The more exercise, the more sugar required, Proof! the armies. The big browers In St. Louts are go lnpr into the candy business. Whenever I want to make a friend or remember a friend want to be sure that my remembrance will be ac ceptable—l send this friend a box of candy, It's a sweet thing to do—The Silent Partner, WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions suhmitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] Of what value to the citizens is the inspection of weights and measures? The inspection of weights and measures Insures the purchasor and | the dealer against the use at lauit!/ • wttfbtt ha nuaauiM' " > &AHRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH folLUct Ck L' r f > lKluOylcClKl& lr tbe Bi-Oommltioeaua Pennsylvania Democratlo machine bosses hi<d something more than tho hot wave to distress them yesterday. The declaration of Raymond Robins, the Progressive chairman of the re cent Progressive national convention, that he was for Hughes, coming rlg'uj after the refusal of tho Indianapolis conference to urge a third party ticket, caused intense surprise and pain. National Chairman McCormlck and State Chairman McLean, who had been scheming to keep the third party movement alive In Pennsylvania for ulterior purposes, are understood to have been cruelly shocked by Robins' action. In some occult manner they had gotten the Impression that Robins was going to rear up. Speaking In New York, McCormlck admitted his surprise and then re marked that the Indianapolis confer ence, which was so scantily attended, showed what he termed "the real trend" of the Progressives. McCor mick is quoted In a New York paper as having admitted that Robins was being considered as a candidate for Democratlo gubernatorial nomination honors In Illinois, In this State, the refusal of Pro gressive leaders to become embroiled In a fight on behalf of the Democrats and Robins' declaration have upset some of McLean's carefully laid plans and he had an earnest talk with some of his leaders to-day. —lmmediate consideration is to be given to the situation in regard to the Pennsylvania soldiers' right to vote and to the ways and means to record their votes. Attorney General Brown Is expected to make a deliverance on the subject within a week. The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day contains this interesting statement: "Senator Penrose's declaration In favor of facilitating the submission of the question of woman suffrage to a vote of the people will bring that Issue squarely before the committee on plat form of the Pennsylvania Republican State committee, which Chairman William E. Crow is about to appoint, along with a committee to revise the rules of the Republican party in this State. It is expected that these com mittees will be named within the next few days and that they will report to a meeting of the Republican State committee early in September. Not only will the woman suffrage issue be pressed before this committee on plat form, but the advocates of local op tion also have indicated a desire to have a hearing upon their proposition that an endorsement of this policy shall be incorporated in the State plat form. Both these issues have been sidetracked in the past and much in terest is evinced in the probablte action of the committee on platform upon both subjects." —Charges that politics has been i played in the National Guard are be ing made by correspondents of the Philadelphia Ledger, Bulletin and North American with the troops at the border and it Is intimated that as a result there has been a lot of bicker ing and other unpleasant things to j such an extent that Major-General Clement is to give a dinner to straighten things out. The North American and Ledger correspondents charge that Adjutant General Stewart has been playing some of the politics and the North American man, Elnar Barfod, says that while it may be cause for summary court-martial to intimate that the adjutant general would do such a thing, nevertheless there are a good many people who think so. He says other things which Indicate that ho has the idea that there is politics in the Guard. —Everybody's Magazine a month or so sgo indulged In an article to the effect that the Guard had a lobby and Intimated pretty strongly that "state politics figured very much in the Na tional Guard and thft the men who make up the rank and file, the self sacrificing fellows who enlist and sweat in the Guard for patriotic reasons, are being used by some chair warmers and chronic officeholders. —lt Is likely that when the next Legislature meets there will be consid erable heard about mobilization, equip ment, organization of auxiliary arms and other things which may rever berate throughout the State. —The Lancaster county Republican committee will meet, to-day for its an nual organization meeting and Re publican candidates, state and county, will address it. The Republican or ganization is stronger than ever, which is going some, in Lancaster this year. —Luzerne county Democrats have settled down to a straight-out fight over control of the party machine this Fall and Congressman Casey, notwith standing beini? drafted to make speeches in Maine, intends to look after his fences carefully. —The North 'American today gives considerable space to a Wellsboro dis patch on pollution of streams and learns that one reason why the State is not doing more is that the funds are low, and although the law calls for thirty wardens, the appropriation al lowed was for but ten. —The burgess of Ellwood City is now being faced with an ordinance to make his salary S6OO a year. In July he gathered in $250 in fees. —Nine persons were arrested yes terday at Altoona for violating the "blue laws" in selling ice cream. Yes terday was the hottest day of the year. —The Philadelphia grand jury re sumed its probe to-day. Gamblers are to be locked up. —Pittsburgh's municipal employes' strike seems to have ended in pretty short order. Mayor Armstrong backed up Director Swan and there was no trouble. —The German-Americans yesterday at Erie indulged in savage criticism of President Wilson. —Berks county Democrats, notably the well-to-do farmers, are commenc ing to growl over the income tax and to ask the Democratic politicians ques tions. Why Pat Came Back Pat was hard at work in the Bald win Locomotive Works when the fore man on his rounds stopped and eyed him sternly. "Did ycz not receive a lether from me, statin' yez was foired?" "Ol received the lether," answered Pat calmly: "tu* insolde says 01 was foired, but th' outside says 'Return In five days to Baldwin's,' eo Oi'm bac'x," The Penny Paper If the readers of penny newspapers, published in cities of less than metro politan slaa, were allowed to vote upon the question of whether the price of the paper should be raised to two cents, or the expense of production be curtailed to a point permitting profit able publication on the penny-a-copy basis, the two-cent price would win, overwhelmingly. For, anomalous as it may seem, nobody wants to read a penny paper unless they feel that it «v pqqitfi.— 1 THE CARTOON OF THE DAY | NOTIFICATION AND ANSWER —From the Baltimore American, 1 > CARING FOR OUR BIRDS By Frederic J. Haskin . y * AMONG American songbirds, the house wren has always been a popular favorite. Every year boxes have been erected for his com ing, and food provided him during the occasional late sleet storms. And al ways we have marveled greatly at the pluck with which so small a bird pro tected Its nest and scolded and fought Its enemies. Now, he stands convicted of high treason, and bird lovers all over the country are trying their best to get rid of him. For It has been dis covered recently by the biological sur vey that our beloved wren delights in poking holes In the newly-laid eggs of the other songbirds, decreasing the annual bird population by many broods. Thus, according to the survey, he bird which we have always regarded as a plucky little angel has turned out to be a regular little devil. In view of the fact that we have always had birds with us, surprisingly little is known concerning their habits and requirements. Here, after many years, we are Just finding out the du plicity of the wren. In talking to an ornithologist sometime ago, a young woman confessed hat she could tell a flicker from a thrush and a robin from a blackbird but aside from that knew nothing about birds. The ornithologist sijiiled and told her that compared to the knowledge of the masse®, hers was a very monument of learning. How ever ignorant the layman may bo con cerning birds, ho is usually very fond of them and will go to any amount of trouble to have them about his place, nesting under his roof and in his trees and rose bushes. The principal inducement to be off ered in attracting birds about the home is protection, from natural ene mies such as cats, snakes and squir rels. This may be done by circling the trunks of trees with bands of tin or metal as obstacles to climbing; and by getting rid of as many cats as pos sible. Next to sportsmen and storms, cats kill more birds annually than all other enemies put together, and a com munity possessing numerous cats is carefully avoided by the birds. Besides protection, birds appreciate any assistance In the way of nesting fa cilities, drinking and bathing places and food. A shallow pool, or merely a metal pan embedded in a secluded place in the ground, will attract hundreds of birds, who take several baths a day during the summer weather. In erect ing blrdhouses, the boxes should be covered with branches and foliage if possible, and certainly not placed In a conspicuous location exposed to the curiosity of humans and the appetite of cats. Neither should the boxes be plac ed too close together, for while birds are sociable creatures they resent be ing crowded. During tha migratory season only do they lead a community life, flying and roosting In great flocks. During the summer birds are usually irißlfterent to extra supplies of food, BOOKS AND MAGAZINES "In Dunkirk, we witnessed, and with in our powers tried to cope with, what yet remains, I believe, the most sen sational exploit in jnistory. It is re membered that the little cars of the Americans often ran those empty streets, and pursued those deafening detonation alone. Here at our base, we shared the life of a town under sporadic, but devastating, bombard ment; forward, In Elverdinghe, we j shared the life of a town under perpe- ; tual and also devastating bombard- 1 ment; still further forward, in Ypres, we beheld a town bombardment from , the faoe of the earth in a single night, i We shared no life here, nor yet In Nleuport, for there was none to share. In the salient around Ypres, wo played for many days our small part in that vast and various- <ictivlty forever going on at the back of the front. Here we saw and learned things not easily to be forgotten; the diverse noises of •hells going and coming, the arrives and departs; the stupendous uproar of the 'duel' before the charge, which makes the deepening quiet of a run back come like a balm and a blessing; the strange informality of roadside batterr, booming away in the sight of peasant families and every passer; the silence and the stillness, and the tense ness and the business, of night along the lines; the extreme difficulty of hid ing from shrapnel successfully without a dugout; the equal difficulty of driv ing successfully down a shell-bitten road in darkness like ink; the glow against the sky of a turning town, and the bright steady dots of starlights around half the horizon; the constant straggle of the evicted by the fleld ambulance's front door, and the fast growing cemetery at the back door; the whine and patter of bullets by the postes do secours and the business-like ripple of the machine guns; the whir of Taubes, the practical Impossibility of hitting tbem from the ground; and Ijth* fllOfii AUGUST 7. 1916. I since the earth and trees are filled with all sorts of enticing: things to eat. but It has been noted by ornithologists that an extra food supply during the nest ing season Is conducive to a greater : number of eggs laid and also the num i ber of broods In a season. In winter the birds that remain are J practically dependent on asslst ! ance In securing food, and It is to be said against us that great numbers of birds die of starvation, every year I while In the summer birds live mostly on insects, seeds and fruit berries, ac cording to their habits, in the winter they will eat anything from bones to peanuts. Many bird lovers throughout i the country have built feeding shelves | and trays for the purpose of feeding ! birds and have made up regular menus I for them, including raw or boiled rice, j suet, bones with shreds of meat crack jed corn, nut meats, peppers, sliced apples, meal worms, popcorn, cocoa- Jnut meat, seeds of all kinds, such as bird seed, hemp seed, pumpkin, squash and sunflower seeds, rolled oats and I wheat. In building a food tray or shelf it should be placed in the shelter j of a root or well or covered with ever j green branches, so that the first wind |or snow that comes along will not ! sweep away the food. The complaints of various persons that birds eat valuable berries and crops would probably nevor be made if their natural food supply were cul tivated or even let alone. Many values have been placed upon the crop prod ucts destroyed by birds every year, but no accurate estimate has been placed upon their services in eating up the many insects that would own the whole earth if not suppressed by some method. Unfortunately, weeds are not consid ered either necessary or ornamental, so that they are cut down and exterminat ed at every opportunity, thus cutting off for the bird a very precious food supply. Deprived of their natural food. It Is not strange of course, that they should turn to cultivated plants as a means of living. Under these circum stances, it is natural that the farmer regards many birds as common thieves. A number of plants and shrubs have now been listed by the Biological Sur vey, which it believes will attract birds to the home and at the same time help to prevent such great depredations on vegetables and cherries. The study and observation of bird life is now being carried on by wo men's clubs throughout the country, and every year adds new recruits to the number of people who feed and house the birds of their locality. Com panies of hikers, equipped with blnocu. lars and notebooks are scouring the woods In search of material for bird essays; strict bird laws prevail in most sections of the country and altogether, after many years of neglect, the little feathered creature is coming into his own. Only the wren is now to be made the subject of just and righteous perse cution. ped by the same; the noises made by men gone mad with pain; the glorious quiet of men under the acetylene lamps of the operating table; 'crowd psy chology,' and why a regiment becomes a 'fighting machine,' and how tender hearts are indurated with a toughen ing of the skin; the high prevalence of courage among the sons of men; draw backs of sleeping on a stretcher in an ambulance; the unkemptness of Boche prisoners; life, death, and war, and the values and meanings Oiereof. Such things, as I know, passed into the ex perience of Section I. in Flanders. And) these things, and more, have similarly passed into the experience of scores of young Americans since, in their life and service behind the lines of France " Henry Sydnor Harrison, in "Friends of France," to be published In August by Houghton Mifflin Company. OUR DAILY"LAUGH! V AND THE SWIMMER. This is the lora I ißrr* 1 ot BUtnm « r /y Many a girl V\ ** as known; * Learn, and the it (h IVi world swims with ytou; ** i. "d Swim, and you •wlm alone. A BEAUT If SHOW. bride, my dear > J | and all that, but I jit&iflA don't think she'll make much of a Nephewi Tou l\ wait till you see 1L Jj, L bridesmaid* Kaa flfllflfltflflrf J „1" " mm9mf " —■— 1 ■ Batting <Eljal ■ '■ r—td i Harrisburg's new parkways arai commencing to rival the Riversidet Road as the route for a ride la these hot evenings and dozens more autowj mobiles can be seen wnizzing along the' roads In the woods and the valleys every night than was the case a month ago. The Cameron Parkway, which I has some very attractive bits of scen ery and the new Paxtarig parkway, which runs from the Oerry street pike to the Reservoir through a fine sec tion of country, both have splendid roadways. The only difficulty is that% the connection between them is a bit unhandy owing to the senseless fuss ing over the linking up and the con struction of the subway, but if one knows the way there is little time lost. These roads traverse a bit of nearby country with which few people are familiar, but which is becoming very popular. When the link between the Reservoir and Wildwood is finish ed the driveway will be one of the finest in the country because there are many parts of the incomplete section which will afford good stretches for riding or walking. As for Wildwood park it grows in popularity. This was one of the best investments the city ever made and there is no more de lightful place to go for an evening ride than through the cool woods which afford occasional glimpses of the railroad yards sparkling with the electric lights and of the city below them and which end when one gets to Linglestown road and strikes the river front with Enola and Marysvllle in the distance. The Cameron and Paxtang parkways bring one within sight of the glow from Steelton and Reservoir park with its lights on the high knob looms up like a beacon for miles. • • • Speaking about drives there are few sections In the country round about Harrisburg that afford prettier nooks than the Paxton creek valley and the country out back of the State hospital. There are some little known roadways In that portion whicn could be made easily accessible and be attractive auxiliaries, so to speak, to the park way. The valley of the Paxton in the evening is a most delightful ride as far as scenery goes, but the roads leave something to be desired just as do those which take one along the Yellow Breeches and the Conodoguinet. • • • A few evenings ago there was print eci in thie column some observations on the rides that are afforded by Stony Creek valley. Dauphin coun ty has six creeks which come down from Its ridges to meet the wide branching Susquehanna and each one Is paralleled by a road of some kind ?iT There are valley roads like that to Manada Gap with its memories of early iron making; woodland glens and forest aisles and others with farms opening out on either side. The valleys of Dauphin county abound in scenery which is most attractive and there are places within sight of the dome of the Capitol that ought to be known by more Harrlsburgers. The Reading railroad's Schuylkill and Sus quehanna division goes through a country which although settled two hundred years ago abounds in wild tracts and is as close to nature as you can get in Monroe county. • • • Incidentally it might be added that there are few more attractive routes for a ramble than to follow the fhien^h°» eek ' st * rtlnfr f rom the con fluence between Middletown and Roy moutii which used to be called Ports ffne nf ,h T r . eason - Taking the line of the old Union canal you go through as nice a bit of country you would want to find, m raost attractive and in the ta p a ™ ere ii S is ood sh °oting. The Swa other StstL c * u . ed a river in some ?I«H RL.U AND LTS beauties adver althm.eh inn CoUnty !t ls H«le known, although 100 years ago it was much 1 the innltr°, ut r s Of people because of the construction of the canal, a pro j ject conceived back in the days of the i Penns to unite the Schuylkill and tViA I Susquehanna. The old canal can be .traced and if one cared to continue m/fh from H ummelstown on into Lebanon rounty there would be found the place where they carried the canal through a tunnel. The his tory of this canal teems with interest to the student of transportation for follows °a e th ? early projects and follows a natural waterway which may be heard from in years to come. rather down there is the valley onewago, which while not so of nLrpTk. a fe T spots whlch aro r Interest because of the firreit num ber of giant boulders scattered about manv of them in the valley of the Th»«« h« & 38 largre as a height car. These boulders are of a totally differ ent ' geological formation from the country where they are found because they were brought from no one knows whfrh a m?.^H° p 1 ? ed by the Skiers which melted here when the dino saurs used to frolic on the site of the Pennsylvania Steel works. The Cane wago valley will some day be the route chosen for a fine highway to reach the Mt. Gretna camp site and which, but for a singular State military policy would have been improved long ago. 5. e ,? re some fine farms with some Traverse CoUntry which »s pleasant to • • • Upper Dauphin county is a sealed book to many Harrisburgers as far as its natural beauties are concerned and yet the Lykens and Williams val leys have some exceedingly attractive sections. The Wiconlsco creek is one of the curiosities of the county be! cause no matter what the season of the year it runs black from the drain age of the coal mines and has some freaks of conduct which are utterly unlike the behaviour of its staid brother on the northern border of the county, the beautiful Mahantongo. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State com missioner of health, who Is directing the campaign against infantile paraly sis, has not taken a vacation for sev-. eral years. —Senator Edwin H. Vare has been awarded one of the parkway grading contracts. —General W. g. Price, commander of the Philadelphia troops, raps grumblers in letters received In hia section of the State. T,,rr? ong r essman s - Porter, of Pittsburgh, is nursing a gubernatorial boom. i —Lieutenant Governor McClain is spending considerable time on inspec tion of highways and will make soma speeches about them. DO YOU KNOW 1 That Steelton Is making steel-Xob rails for the Far East? j , HARJUSBURG John Harris Ferry antedated all other ferries on the Susquehanna, From the Chin Up ' The man who can submit to lnjus* tice and remain silent, who can makq good use of leisure, who can find sat-, isfactlon in keeping a secret, is si*
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